Re: pkgquilt

On 6/13/26 5:29 PM, Benny Siegert wrote:
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> On Thu, 11 Jun 2026, Robert Elz wrote:
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>> that isn't "let us" but "require us to", as with per-file patches
>> there's no way (in general) to just apply one of them at a time,
>> they can all depend upon each other (a changed function signature,
>> in a source file, or using an added field in a struct, needs a
>> corresponding change in a header file, or using a new function needs
>> an additional library, and hence changes to the Makefile).
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> A long long time ago pkgsrc had topical patches.

This is generally not true. There were a few packages that had larger 
topical patches, the general has pretty much always been one file per 
patch. It's just the naming scheme that changed.

Joerg